POLAR RECORD

EDITOR: L. M. FORBES

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE : T. E. ARMSTRONG, H. G. R. KING

B. B. ROBERTS, G. DE Q. ROBIN

Vol 14 JANUARY 1969 No 91

CONTENTS

ARTICLES :

Party politics or protest politics: current political trends in Alaska. By George W. Rogers 455 Polar Bear tagging in Alaska, 1968. By Jack W. Lentfer . . .459 Aspects of the frequency of calms in . By N. A. Streten . 463 Air census of two colonies of Adelie Penguins {Pygoscelis adeliae) in Ross Dependency, Antarctica. By Bernard Stonehouse . . 471 Giant icebergs in the Weddell Sea. 1967-68. By Charles Swithinbank 477 Economics of shipping in polar seas. By Thornton A. Sherman . . 479

FIELD WORK :

Soviet drifting stations, 1966-68 489 Soviet small boat journey from Arkhangel'sk to Mangazeya, 1967 1967 489 University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Expedition to East , 1967 490 Geographical Branch, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources: Field Work in Baffin Island, 1967 490 D. Humphrey's Trans- Expedition, 1967-68 .... 492 Cambridge Spitsbergen Expedition, 1968 492 Cambridge Greenland Expedition, 1968 494 Japanese activities in the , 1967-68 494 New Zealand activities in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic, 1967-78 . 495 South African-Belgian Antarctic Summer Expedition, 1967-68 . . 498 Soviet activities in the Antarctic, 1967-68 499 United States activities in the Antarctic, 1967-68 .... 501 444 CONTENTS

NOTES: Twentieth Meeting of the International Whaling Commission, 1968 . 509 Arctic Institute of North America: Study in Northern Transportation 509 International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN): First Working Meeting of Polar Bear Scientists, 1968 . 511 Arctic sea ice studies with the aid of polar-orbiting satellites . . 513 United States federal expenditure on Arctic research, 1968 . . 514 Use of inflatable boats in east Greenland waters 518 Loss of aircraft with hydrogen bomb load in Greenland, 1968 . . 518 Loss of Mischief, July 1968 519 United States Antarctic research vessel Hero 519 Tourism in the Antarctic, 1968 520 Chronological list of Arctic and sub-Arctic expeditions and historical 520 events

Opening of the new wing of the Scott Polar Research Institute . . 521

OBITUARY 523

ERRATA 526

RECENT POLAR LITERATURE 527

SCAR Bulletin No 31 Joint meeting of Working Groups on Geology and Geophysics, Tokyo, 1968 571 SCAR/IUBS/SCIBP Symposium on Antarctic Ecology, 1968 . . 575 National Committees of SCAR . 575 Permanent delegates to SCAR ...... 575 Permanent Working Groups of SCAR 575 Exchange scientists in the Antarctic, 1967-68 576